Company.com – It’s All About Community
I’m an advocate for small and medium businesses (SMBs) – coming from a SMB background I’m all to aware of the difficulties that those at the bottom of the foodchain experience. I’ve long been involved in business advisory roles and was part of a team that set up a SMB online community a couple of [...]
One Bad Experience Doesn't Tarnish the Entire Industry
I hate it when people use a discrete example to cast doubt over an entire industry.We see it every time Gmail has an outage. We see it every time there’s a Salesforce outage. It’s unhelpful and it’s just plain wrong. The latest example came this morning – commenting on the SageLive issues, Kevin White from [...]
David and Goliath Part Two – Sometimes the Little Guys Can Be Cruel
I posted awhile ago telling the David and Goliath tale of Kashflow and Sage. Sage being the big boy of UK accounting software and Kashflow being a poor defenceless SaaS start-up being hounded to death by the behemoth. At the time I wrote that I thought Sage’s actions were unnecessary and unhelpful, a contention I [...]
Going Live, With Sage. Initial Review of SageLive
I posted a few weeks ago about the impending release of Sage’s first on-demand accounting product, SageLive. As I’ve said before, it’s all very well for a start-up to create a SaaS product but for a traditional software vendor to move (at least in part) to a subscription based service is a difficult ask – [...]
